Birds of a Feather (BoF) Schedule
Topic: Visualizing Biological Data
Leader: Seán O'Donoghue
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Time: Monday, July 12, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Room: 304
Description:
Visualization is one of the primary ways that biologists interact with their data, however today’s systems are inadequate for many high-throughput data sets. We invite those interested to a discussion of recent and ongoing community efforts aimed at improving integration, effectiveness, and usability of visualization in biology (e.g.,http://vizbi.org, http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s).
Topic: Scaling up Biomedical Knowledge Bases
Leader: Kevin Livingston
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver
Time: Monday, July 12, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Room: 306
Extensive semantic resources and new standards and technologies have transformed biomedical knowledge-bases, but challenges remain in building, using, sharing, and maintaining them. This BoF will discuss technologies, scaling issues, and potential community-wide collaborations.
Topic: Network visualization and analysis using Cytoscape
Leader: Gary Bader
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Time: Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: 302
Description:
Network visualization and analysis is frequently used in computational biology and biology. Cytoscape is one software system that handles this task. The Cytoscape team is interested in connecting with users and developers of network visualization and analysis software to get feedback on Cytoscape and to discuss challenges and opportunities in this area.
TOP
Topic: A practical approach to web semantics using Reflect
Leader: Seán O'Donoghue
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Time: Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: 304
Description:
Semantic tagging of biochemical entities in webpages helps life scientists deal with the large number of protein and chemicals names and synonyms. Released in 2009, Reflect is used by 40,000+ life scientists to tag biochemical entities in webpages. The Reflect team is interested to meet users and content providers to get feedback and discuss opportunities.
Topic: BioHDF
Leader: Dana Robinson
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: The HDF Group
Time: Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: 306
Description:
This BoF discussion will be about using BioHDF to store next-generation sequencing (NGS) data with a special focus SAM/BAM interoperability.
Topic: BioPAX
Leader: Nadia Anwar
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Time: Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room: 312
Desc: The BioPAX ontology (www.biopax.org) is a standard language for formally representing biological pathways and is available to the biological community to enable exchange and integration of pathway data. To get involved, or learn more about BioPAX please join us for an informal tutorial/round table session.
